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BUZZ-Absci rises on $20 million investment from AMD

ReutersJan 8, 2025 12:24 PM

Shares of AI biologics firm Absci Corp ABSI.O rise 30.6% to $4.01 premarket

Co announces a strategic collaboration with Advanced Micro Devices AMD.O, where the chipmaker will invest $20 mln in co to power AI drug discovery

The investment is structured as a private investment in public equity or PIPE financing

The partnership will provide AI solutions and also help reduce infrastructure costs for ABSI

ABSI will deploy AMD's AI chips to help in drug discovery which "will enable us to further the development of next-generation antibody therapeutics"- ABSI

Absci previously struck a deal worth up to $247 mln with drugmaker AstraZeneca AZN.L to design an antibody to fight cancer

Up to last close, ABSI had fallen 8.6% in the past 12 months

(Reporting by Sneha S K)

((Sneha.SK@thomsonreuters.com;))

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